Improvement in clothes-line hooks



UNITEDSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK G. SLEMMER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT lN CLOTHES-LINE HOOKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent N 0. 222.086, dated Novcmber 25, 1879; application filed c Ap1i126, 1879.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK G. SLEMMER, of the city and county of Philadelphia, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and usefullmprovement in Clothes-Line Hooks,

which improx'ement is fully set forth in the provement in clothes-line hooks, and Figs. 2

and 3 side elevations of the same.

A B is the hook, provided with arms a a, sufficiently far apart to enable them to slip loosely over the top of board fence E. G G are small nubs or projections on one of the arms, the opposite one being provided with a slot, F, in which fits an eccentric, D, with handle (J, and held in place and moving on pin or bolt 0.

In attaching the hook to the fence the handle C is raised, Fig. 2, and the arms a a slipped over the fence E, when the handle is pressed down, Fig. 3, forcing the eccentric D against the board and drawing the points G G into the same on opposite side, thus clamping it firmly and securely.

- I claim as my invention- The hook A B, provided with arms cm, slot F, eccentric D, and handle 0, substantially as shown and described.

FRANK G. SLEMMER. Witnesses:

GEORGE F. BABE, ISAIAH ALDRICH. 

